Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest

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Russia was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 23 times from its debut in Template:Escyr to Template:Escyr. Russia won the Template:Escyr contest with Dima Bilan performing the song "Believe". In Template:Escyr, the country failed to qualify for the final for the first time in its history. The Russian entry was chosen through both internal selections and a televised national final titled Evrovidenie.

Following their exclusion from the Template:Escyr due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on 26 February 2022, the Russian broadcasters RTR and Channel One announced that they would suspend their membership in the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The EBU made effective the suspension on 26 May 2022, preventing Russia from participating in further Eurovision events unless its membership is resumed.[1][2]

Contest history

Russia debuted in the Template:Escyr contest after becoming a member of the EBU. Russia won their first and so far only contest in 2008, when Dima Bilan, participating for the second time in the contest, won with the song "Believe", bringing the contest to Russia for 2009. Russia came second at four contests; in Template:Escyr with the song "Solo" performed by Alsou, in Template:Escyr with Dima Bilan's song "Never Let You Go", in Template:Escyr with the song "Party for Everybody" performed by Buranovskiye Babushki, and in Template:Escyr with Polina Gagarina's song "A Million Voices". They also achieved four third-place finishes; in Template:Escyr with t.A.T.u's song "Ne ver', ne boysia", Serebro in Template:Escyr with their entry "Song #1", and in Template:Escyr as well as Template:Escyr with Sergey Lazarev's entries "You Are the Only One" and "Scream" respectively.

Russia has failed to qualify for the final on two occasions. In 1996, Russia's entry was Andrey Kosinsky with the song "Ya eto ya", but he scored an insufficient number of points in a special qualifying round, while in 2018 Yulia Samoylova, who represented the country with the song "I Won't Break", failed to qualify from the televised second semi-final.

In 1998, because Russia did not participate in the contest (due to lower average scores in participating in previous competitions), Russia refused to broadcast the competition and the European Broadcasting Union in return forbade the country to participate the following year. According to unconfirmed information, Russia intended to send Tatyana Ovsienko with the song "Solntse moyo" (My Sun), which turned out to be a false rumour as the song was officially released in mid-1997 on Tatyana's album "Za Rozovym morem". Tatyana herself, during an interview, said that she did not go to Eurovision because she was "Either afraid or not very sure, besides, I knew that there were stronger guys and girls, and I thought that I would still have time [to go to Eurovision]."[3]

Russia was the most successful country in Eurovision between 2000 and 2009, with one win, two-second places, and two third places. However, in 2010 they finished 11th, and in 2011 they were 16th, which was the worst placing for Russia since 1995. Interest in the competition fell, but in 2012, Buranovskiye Babushki finished in second place, increasing Russia's interest in the show. Sergey Lazarev holds the record of the highest score of any Russian contestant, who finished third in 2016 with 491 points.

In February 2019, Sergey Lazarev was once again confirmed as the Russian representative for the 2019 contest, becoming the second returning artist in Russia's Eurovision history after Dima Bilan, who participated in 2006 and 2008 respectively. This time he represented his country with the song "Scream", with which he brought Russia back to the final for the first time since 2016 and achieved the country's 10th top 5 result, by finishing third once again.

For the 2021 contest, Russia opted to return to a national selection, after Little Big declined to return following their intended participation in the later-cancelled 2020 contest with "Uno". "Russian Woman" performed by Manizha emerged as the winner of the selection, which then went on to finish in 9th place in the final.

Russia had originally planned to participate in the Template:Escyr contest, but was excluded from participating by the EBU due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[4][5] In response, the Russian broadcasters VGTRK and Channel One announced their intention to suspend their membership in the EBU.[1] The suspension was made effective by the EBU on 26 May, preventing Russia from participating in further Eurovision events unless its membership is resumed.[2]

Broadcast

The contest was broadcast irregularly on two different public state channels in Russia, both EBU members: in 1994 and 1996 it was broadcast on Russia-1 of RTR, while in 1995, 1997 and from 1999 to 2007, the contest was broadcast on Channel One. From 2008, there was an alternation on broadcast and selection duties, with Russia-1 on even years, and Channel One on odd years. This alternation was disrupted when Russia withdrew from the 2017 contest, after which Channel One assumed broadcast and selection duties in 2018, 2020 and 2021, and Russia-1 in 2019.

Participation overview

Table key
1 First place
2 Second place
3 Third place
X Entry selected but did not compete
Year Artist Song Language Final Points Semi Points
Template:Escyr Youddiph "Script error: No such module "Lang"."Template:Efn (Script error: No such module "Lang".)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Russian 9 70 rowspan="2" colspan="2" Template:N/A
Template:Escyr Philipp Kirkorov "Script error: No such module "Lang"." (Script error: No such module "Lang".)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Russian 17 17
Template:Escyr Andrey Kosinsky "Script error: No such module "Lang"." (Script error: No such module "Lang".)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Russian colspan="2" Template:N/ATemplate:Efn X 26 14
Template:Escyr Alla Pugacheva "Script error: No such module "Lang"." (Script error: No such module "Lang".)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Russian 15 33 rowspan="5" colspan="2" Template:N/A
Template:Escyr Alsou "Solo" English 2 155
Template:Escyr Script error: No such module "Lang". "Lady Alpine Blue" English 12 37
Template:Escyr Prime Minister "Northern Girl" English 10 55
Template:Escyr t.A.T.u. "Script error: No such module "Lang"." (Script error: No such module "Lang".)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Russian 3 164
Template:Escyr Julia Savicheva "Believe Me" English 11 67 colspan="2" Template:N/ATemplate:Efn
Template:Escyr Natalia Podolskaya "Nobody Hurt No One" English 15 57 colspan="2" Template:N/ATemplate:Efn
Template:Escyr Dima Bilan "Never Let You Go" English 2 248 3 217
Template:Escyr Script error: No such module "Lang". "Song #1" English 3 207 colspan="2" Template:N/ATemplate:Efn
Template:Escyr Dima Bilan "Believe" English 1 272 3 135
Template:Escyr Anastasia Prikhodko "Script error: No such module "Lang"." (Script error: No such module "Lang".)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Russian, Ukrainian 11 91 colspan="2"Template:N/A
Template:Escyr Peter Nalitch and Friends "Lost and Forgotten" English 11 90 7 74
Template:Escyr Alexey Vorobyov "Get You" English, Russian 16 77 9 64
Template:Escyr Script error: No such module "Lang". "Party for Everybody" Udmurt, English 2 259 1 152
Template:Escyr Dina Garipova "What If" English 5 174 2 156
Template:Escyr Tolmachevy Sisters "Shine" English 7 89 6 63
Template:Escyr Polina Gagarina "A Million Voices" English 2 303 1 182
Template:Escyr Sergey Lazarev "You Are the Only One" English 3 491 1 342
Template:Escyr Julia Samoylova "Flame Is Burning" English colspan="4" Template:N/A X
Template:Escyr Julia Samoylova "I Won't Break" English colspan="2" Template:N/A 15 65
Template:Escyr Sergey Lazarev "Scream" English 3 370 6 217
Template:Escyr Little Big "Script error: No such module "Lang"." English, Spanish colspan="4" Template:N/ATemplate:Efn X
Template:Escyr Manizha "Russian Woman" Russian, English 9 204 3 225

Related involvement

Conductors

Year Conductor Notes Ref.
Template:Escyr Template:Flagicon Lev Zemlinski
Template:Escyr Template:Flagicon Mikhail Finberg
Template:Escyr Template:Flagicon Rutger Gunnarsson

Heads of delegation

Broadcaster Year(s) Head of delegation Ref.
Channel One ???–2003 Elena Arkhipova [6]Template:Better source needed
2004–2021 Yuri Aksyuta [7]Template:Better source needed
RTR 2008–2019 Ekaterina Orlova [8]

Commentators and spokespersons

Template:More citations needed section Script error: No such module "For". The contest was also aired on radio stations and alternative channels, including Template:Ill, commentated by Olesya Trifonova, in 1995.[9] From 2008 until their suspension, Channel One and Russia-1 switched roles to broadcast the contest.

Year Channel Commentator Spokesperson Ref.
Template:Escyr RTR rowspan="2"Template:N/A rowspan="2"Template:N/A [10]
Template:Escyr [11]
Template:Escyr Template:Ill Irina Klenskaya [12]
Template:Escyr ORT Template:N/ATemplate:Efn Marina Danielyan [9][13][14]
Template:Escyr colspan="2" Template:N/A Template:N/A
Template:Escyr ORT Philipp Kirkorov, Sergey Antipov Arina Sharapova [15][16][17]
Template:Escyr colspan="2" Template:N/A rowspan="3" Template:N/A
Template:Escyr ORT Olga Maksimova and Kolya MacCleod [18][19][20]
Jewish Channel Template:N/A [21]
Template:Escyr ORT Tatyana Godunova, Aleksey Zhuravlev Zhanna Agalakova [22][23][24]
Template:Escyr Template:Ill, Template:Ill Larisa Verbitskaya [25][26]
Template:Escyr Template:Ill, Template:Ill Arina Sharapova [27][28][29]
Template:Escyr Channel One Yana Churikova [30][31]
Template:Escyr Channel One (Final)
 [32][33]
Template:Escyr Channel One [34][35]
Template:Escyr Yuri Aksyuta, Tatyana Godunova [36][37]
Template:Escyr Yuri Aksyuta, Yelena Batinova [38][39]
Template:Escyr Telekanal Rossiya, Script error: No such module "Lang". Dmitry Guberniev, Template:Ill Oxana Fedorova [40][41][42]
Template:Escyr Channel One Yana Churikova (All shows)
Aleksey Manuylov (Semi-finals)
Philipp Kirkorov (Final) 		Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė [43][44]
Template:Escyr Russia-1 Dmitry Guberniev, Olga Shelest Oxana Fedorova
Template:Escyr Channel One Yuri Aksyuta, Yana Churikova
 Dima Bilan [45][46][47]
Template:Escyr Russia-1 Dmitry Guberniev, Olga Shelest Oxana Fedorova [48]
Template:Escyr Channel One Yuri Aksyuta, Yana Churikova Alsou [49][50]
Template:Escyr Russia-1 Dmitry Guberniev, Olga Shelest [51][52][53]
Template:Escyr Channel One Yuri Aksyuta, Yana Churikova Dmitry Shepelev [54]
Template:Escyr Russia-1, Russia HD Dmitry Guberniev, Ernest Mackevičius Nyusha [55]
Template:Escyr colspan="2" Template:N/A Template:N/A
Template:Escyr Channel OneTemplate:Efn Yuri Aksyuta, Yana Churikova Alsou [56]
Template:Escyr Russia 1, Russia HD Dmitry Guberniev, Olga Shelest Ivan Bessonov [57][58][59][60]
Template:Escyr colspan="3" Template:N/A
Template:Escyr Channel One Yuri Aksyuta, Yana Churikova Polina Gagarina [61][62][63][64]
Template:Escyr–Template:Escyr colspan="2" Template:N/A Template:N/A [65]

Costume designers

Year Costume designers Ref.
Template:Escyr Pavel Kaplevich
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Template:Escyr Maria Grachvogel
[67]
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Template:Escyr Valentin Yudashkin
[68]
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Viewing figures

Year Region(s) Share Rating Ref.
1997 All of Russia 53.8% Template:N/A [69]Template:Better source needed
2001 All of Russia 31.1% 5.5% [70]
2004 All of Russia 51.6% 16.1% [70]
2005 All of Russia 40.2% 11% [70]
2007 All of Russia 53.6% 17% [71]
2008 All of Russia 47% 8.4% [71]
2009 All of Russia 64.2% 17.6% [70]
2010 Rest of Russia 37.2% Template:N/A [70]
Moscow 46.5% Template:N/A
2011 Rest of Russia 33% 5.4% [70]
Moscow 35.5% 8%
2012 All of Russia 47.7% 12.1% [72]
2013 All of Russia 32.5% 6% [73]
2014 All of Russia 31.5% 5.2% [73]
2015 All of Russia 31.6% 6.8% [74]
2016 All of Russia 37% 6.8% [74]
2018 All of Russia 11.6% 2.2% [74]
2019 All of Russia 28.2% 4.6% [74]
2020Template:Efn All of Russia 11.7% 3% [75]
2021 All of Russia 23.1% 3.8% [75]

Hostings

Year Location Venue Presenters Ref.
Template:Escyr Moscow Olympic Indoor Arena Natalia Vodianova and Andrey Malahov (semi-finals)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Alsou and Ivan Urgant (final)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		[76]

Awards

Marcel Bezençon Awards

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Year Category Song Performer Final Points Host city Ref.
Template:Escyr Press Award "You Are the Only One" Sergey Lazarev 3 491 Template:Flagicon Stockholm [77]

Barbara Dex Award

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Year Performer Host city Ref.
Template:Escyr t.A.T.u. Template:Flagicon Riga [78]

Photo gallery

See also

Notes and references

Notes

Template:Notelist

References

Template:Reflist

Template:Russia in the Eurovision Song Contest Template:Eurovision Song Contest Template:Eurovision Song Contest's Greatest Hits

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